Reply #48: See? It's working ......

[OldLeftieLawyer]

We're talking. That's wonderful.

The reluctance to get involved among younger folks is part of the terrible problem we face, and I'm convinced that so much of it is that we don't have a draft. In the sixties - where I come from - the draft was a great impetus to work out politically in ways that have defined a lot of lives since then.

Now, the problem is that youngsters are safe and comfortable and have other priorities. I understand that, but I'm glad I'm not going to be around to see what happens when they realize, forty years on, that their ennui and sloth will have left them in a country I'm not sure I'd recognize as my America. I mean, I watch them online, all those worthless online petitions, for instance, giving them the false comfort that they're somehow "involved," somehow "accomplishing something," somehow "contributing."

They're not.

Did you think you and I were fighting? Naw, not even close.

Personally, I'm an anarchist who believes that the only way to fix anything is to get all the way inside it and then subvert it for my own selfish ends. That's why I became a lawyer.

I have a feeling that a third party would end up being more of the same. We are creatures of habit, and when power is up for grabs, we're animals.

What we need - this is my opinion only - is a strong leader to stand up and take over. Honestly, there's no hope now for any kind of leader to come from any of the Democrats currently in office. They're already too co-opted, what with fundraising and being in thrall to their contributors. We need the Great Outsider, one who can articulate his platform, rally people to his cause, and never, never, never stop beating up on what these fucking Bushwhackers have done to our beloved America.

See what Kurt Vonnegut started? ;)